1450-1750 CE Flashcards
Hernan Cortes
Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)
The Great Dying
The devastation of American Indian populations by diseased brought over from Europe.
Little Ice Age
A century-long period of cool climate that began in the 1590’s. Ill effects on agriculture in norther Europe.
Devshirme
Ottoman policy of taking the firstborn child from Christian people, converting them to become Muslim soldiers.
Columbian Exchange
The exchange of plants, animals, diseased, and technologies between the Americans and the rest of the world following Columbus’ voyages.
Mercantilism
An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought.
Mestizo
A term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent
Settler colonies
Colonizing people settled in large numbers to exploit the region, British colonies in North America.
Mulattoes
The term used for people of mixed African and European blood
Yasak
Tribute that Russian rulers demanded from the native peoples of Siberia, most often in the form of furs.
Qing Expansion
The growth of Qing dynasty China during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries into a central Asian empire that added a small minority of non-Chinese people to the empires population.
Mughal Empire
(1526-1857) Muslim state exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Akbar
(1556-1605) Most illustrious sultan of the Mughal Empire in India. He expanded the empire and pursued a policy of conciliation with Hundus.
Aurangzeb
Mughal emperor in Indian and great-grandson of akbar “The Great” under whom the empire reached its greatest extent, only to collapse after his death
